Fox-Wisconsin Waterway

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The Fox-Wisconsin Waterway is a waterway formed by the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. First used by white men in 1673 during the expedition of Marquette & Joliet, it was the principal route used by travelers moving between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River until the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848. The Fox-Wisconsin Waterway was traveled by boating into Green Bay and entering the Fox River, following it through Lake Winnebago and continuing on the Fox until reaching Portage, Wisconsin, where the travelers would take themselves and their goods a few miles east and resume boating on the Wisconsin River, continuing upon it until reaching the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.